Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw Takes Aim at DEI Statements With New Bill
“Make no mistake — the DEI bureaucracy is directly responsible for a toxic campus culture that separates everyone into oppressor vs oppressed.”
Good for Crenshaw. It is way past time for all Republicans to get involved in this battle.
FOX News reports:
Crenshaw takes on mandatory DEI statements at colleges, universities with new House bill
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, is pushing to halt federal funding to colleges and universities that force students to sign or make statements on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
His new bill would ban places of higher education from compelling students, staff, or applicants to “endorse an ideology that promotes the differential treatment of an individual or group of individuals based on race, color, or ethnicity,” according to the legislative text.
It would also stop them from requiring statements on an individual’s race, ethnicity or identity except for bare minimum demographic information needs and “views on, experience with, or past or planned contributions to efforts involving diversity, equity, and inclusion, marginalized groups, antiracism, social justice, intersectionality, or related concepts.”
The bill would compel schools by leveraging funds under the Higher Education Act.
“We can see the utter moral bankruptcy in higher education with the spread of antisemitism on college campuses.” Crenshaw told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“Make no mistake — the DEI bureaucracy is directly responsible for a toxic campus culture that separates everyone into oppressor vs oppressed.”
The legislation would also bar colleges and universities from using those statements as a standard for acceptance or employment.
It comes after Crenshaw’s home state of Texas passed a new law against DEI programs at public colleges there.
The Texas bill, signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June, goes into effect January 2024 and will force Lone Star State-funded schools to dismantle any DEI offices, trainings and requirements they currently have.
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If you want to pursue a college education, go abroad.
You’ll learn more that’s worth learning, and you’ll probably save money.
DIE departments are part of the oppressor class.
The oppressed identities, many of which intersect, include Americans, Christians, Conservatives, patriots, Republicans, veterans, and Whites.
The DIE crowd don’t see the problem. Perhaps they miss the good old days when their kind got to feed Christians to lions?
Crenshaw has a real conservative constitutional opponent, and he is a little worried because we have a much better candidate for his seat. He is a liar every time he opens his mouth—-he shows us who he really is. so self-absorbed he can”t help himself. We have a great candidate Jameson Ellis…..Jameson Ellis is actually a conservative believes in the 2nd amendment as well as the 1st amendment neither of those 2does crenshaw support no matter he likes to put his service career out there to impress all of us… crenshaw is rude arrogant and doesn’t enjoy speaking to the citizens—rather he likes the DC party circuit. Jameson Ellis puts TEXAS first and works at keeping TEXANS safe. crenshaw very first vote was a redflag law and his talks are all about some kind of gun control because we kill too many people no matter that we have guns being bought and sold everyday–We have always had more guns than population and yet it is a rare event that we are out there just killing random people…It is guns killing people and families that are no longer raising their children but rather has given that duty and responsibility to the government schools–the social media platforms =–the video games and others—The criminals have more guns than anyone speaks about….we don’t even talk about the bad guys having more lethal weapons than the LEOs